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Last week he offered to name a list of State officials and underlings who, he charged, were even now being investigated for loyalty. Would he name them off the Senate floor, where he would not have congressional immunity? Sure he would, he told a group of Washington newspapermen, if they would guarantee in advance to print the list-not part of it, but every word of it. "I assume that 20 would sue for libel," Joe said jauntily. "You could win of course, but the costs might first be a couple of $100,000s. I'd be sued...
...course of a speech to British newspapermen, Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison saw a nice chance to twist the ring in Pravda's nose. "I should feel more hopeful for the future," said Morrison, "if our Prime Minister or I were asked for an exclusive interview with Pravda, and if we could then be sure that our words would be reproduced . . . faithfully . . . Now, Pravda, what about...
...even total command is a qualified thing, to be held only with the fullest exercise of journalistic responsibility. Said John Cowles: "If a monopoly newspaper is really bad, then it won't last as a monopoly. New competition by abler and more socially moral newspapermen will eventually displace and supersede...
Stanley Clifford Weyman, a sad-looking, smooth-talking man of 60, blended into the fuzz-buzz edges of Lake Success as easily as any of that strange new tribe of international do-gooders who are not quite diplomats, not quite newspapermen, and not quite experts on anything. A correspondent of the Erwin News Agency, (headquarters in Washington), he had broadcast interviews with U.N. notables over a Manhattan F.M. radio station, served as a tipster for the London Daily Mirror. He had a marked talent for big-name-dropping, and for catching rides in official delegation cars. He made himself popular...
...news [articles] manufactured by the United Press ... are the thoughts of bankers, industries and powerful commercial interests. The U.S. people are also under this yoke, and their leaders are threatened by its enmity. That is why Truman has said he has four or five punches in store for American newspapermen...